Lyrics
Neera nonge a menga - Love yourself
Written by King Ayisoba
Performed by King Ayisoba
Chorus 1:
Everyone should love him/herself.
My brothers and sisters !
Everyone should love him/herself.
Nobody is better than other people in this world.
Chorus 2:
Everyone should love him/herself.
My fathers!
Everyone should love him/herself.
My ancestors !
Nobody is better than other people in this world.
Chorus 3:
Everyone should love him/herself.
My brothers and sisters !
Everyone should love him/herself.
If you are poor, you should still love yourself in this world.
(4 x)
If someone has enough (e.g. to eat/clothes)
People around him thinks he is too proud.
Everyone should love him/herself.
I’m telling you my brothers and sisters,
that God has his own time of giving.
If you don’t have enough now,
yours will come later.
”Fobe” (go strong!)
If someone has enough (e.g. to eat/clothes)
People around him thinks he is too proud (or disrespectful)
Everyone should love him/herself.
Ayisoba !
Everyone should love him/herself in this world.
My ancestor !
Respect me and I will also respect you. All people are equal.
I don’t feed from you and you also don’t feed from me.
Have other people at heart rather than focus too much on wealth.
My ancestor !
Do you disrespect because of your wealth ?
It’s not all about wealth, but respect for one another.
Black Star Liner
by Sheriff Ghale
Performed by Sheriff, Lady Aisha, Zaki, Kawastone and King Ayisoba
Chorus:
Black star liner - coming home
Don’t need no ticket - get on board
Black star liner - coming home
Don’t need no ticket - get on board
Verse 1:
We’re roaming from coast to coast
Picking up homeless black people
Roaming from coast to coast
Picking freed slaves and Jah people
Hey! Hey! I hear ya!
Brothers and sisters stolen away
Mothers and fathers and disarray
Bound in shackles and chains
Lost in the winds can’t go home
Bound in shackles and chains
Lost at sea can’t come home
Chorus/ad-libs:
Black star liner going round and round
Looking for brothers lost brothers
Don’t need no ticket get on board hey heiy
Black star liner coming home, we’re coming home yeah
Don’t need no ticket get on board yeah
Hey we’re moving from east to west and from north to south
Searching and calling out loud
Said I am a messenger
Carrying message from home
Message from Kwame Nkrumah
Message from mama of the whole
There’s a family reunion at home
Mama cries as I speak
She’s been framed of a sell out
She’s been blamed and abused
She’s been used and refused and now accused
Chorus/ad-libs:
Heiy black star liner coming home, we’re coming home yeah, don’t need no ticket get on board
And tell again and again, black star liner coming home, going round and round,
Looking for brothers lost brothers and sisters
So long in the slave pit, so long in the dungeon, so long on the plantation yeah eh,
Still you never get paid; still you never get paid,
Mama Africa here we come, Ithiopia, Mama Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mama Gambia,
Sierra Leone, Liberia, we’re coming home yeah, don’t need no ticket to get on board
And we’re coming we’re coming on, black star liner coming home, she’s coming home yeah, don’t need no tickets get on board
Sleep little you
by Aisha Thorsen
Performed by Lady Aisha, Sirina Issah, Aina Issah and Zaki
The lights, the park
The shooting in the dark
Strangers they were sneaking in the night
Took your parents left u with that sight
The beat, your world
was changing overnight
Though it seems like you are now on your own
Don’t forget you never walk alone
Sleep little you
Baby don’t you worry
Angels will watch you
I hear them calling
They’ll be right here by your side
Guide you through life
Through a new tomorrow
When u wake up
There’ll be little less sorrow
They’ll be right by your side
A child without parents
Should stop crying
The greater they are your parents
God takes good care of you
A tortoise orphan is raised by the thick leafs
When an orphan weeps
It’s so sorrowful and a pity
God is always aware of you
From my heart
Soon the sun will rise
and light the day
and you my love’ll be rise with the day
yes you my love’ll be rising with the day
The scary pictures
they will drift away
and when nightime come stars will lead your way
yes when nightime come stars will lead your way
Sleep little you
Baby don’t you worry
Angels will watch you
I hear them calling
They’ll be right by your side
Guide you through life
Through a new tomorrow
When u wake up
There’ll be little less sorrow
They’ll be right by your side
I promise soon darkness
will pass you by
day by day by day
you will be fine
I promise darkness
will pass you by
and so you will be fine
Rise and Shine
by Sheriff Ghale
Performed by Sheriff, King Ayisoba, Kawastone, Zaki, Lady Aisha, Asua.
Chorus:
Rise and shine by the powers of your mind
Rise and shine don’t under estimate your might yeah
Arise and shine by the powers of your mind
Arise and shine don’t under estimate your might yeah
Verse 1:
Wowow wowow
There is a reason for your life – rise up and don’t be victimized
By dem shitstem nor trial and tribulation Wowow wowow
Life is mean t for mankind to live – come lets fulfill our destiny
Whatever we do – Jah will see wi through
Verse 2:
Wowow wowow
Life is full of ups and downs – pick yourself from off the ground
A time has come to put on your crown and come wowow wowow
Wipe dem tears and sweat away and make it through dem hills and valleys
My sister and brother – break down dem fences and borders
Chorus 2:
My brother and sister and father and mother live up right
Jah people my people together we can shine our lights,
Corruption illusion frustration depression going down
Corruption illusion pollution we
